Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Youth

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

10.

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

11.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

12.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

17.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

19.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

20.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

21.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

23.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

27.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

28.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

29.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

35.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

37.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

43.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

45.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

46.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

49.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David